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This plant is pretty much like the firft fpecies, grows very luxuriantly, and 

 ftretches fometimes many feet from the main root: it is generally , ufed for dung- 

 bafkets about the country. 



Fruticofa fcandens ; baccis niveis maculis nigris 



TOURNEFORTIA 



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notatis. 





Tournefortia Foliis ovatis acumindtis, peteolis refexis caule volubili. L. 



Sp. PI. 



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Pittonia Sca?idens bois de Chaplet Gallis didta Dom. de JuJJieu. 

 Brionia Nigra fruticofa, &c, S lot Cat. 106, & H. t. 143. 2. 



The climbing Tournefortia with fpotted Berries and {lender Branches. 



This plant is very common about Kingjl 



weakly climbing fhrub with 



very flender flexile branches, and rifes generally to the height of feven or eight feet; 



very remarkable for the black fpots upon its berries, but they vary 



or better , it is 



with the number of the feeds, which 



fometimes 



fometimes two or more 



tho' conftantly four in the germen and more perfect fpecimens. 



TOURNEFORTIA 5. Subfrutico/a, foliis fubincanis oblongi s y fronde comqfc 



Thymeliae Facie j rut ex marinus y &c. Slo. Cat. H. t. 1 62, f. 4. 



The Ala-coloured Sea-fide Tournefortia. 



This plant is found by the fea-fide, near the burough in St. James's ; it is of 

 fhruby make, and feldom rifes above three or four feet from the ground. 



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GERASCANTHUS 1. Foliis ovato-oblongts y ytrinque produc7is, racemis 



Cordia Foliis ovatis integ 



terminal! bus. Tab. 29f. 3 



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L. Sp. PI 



An y Nerio qffinis Arbor verficolora materie y , &c; Slo. Cat. 155:-, & H 

 Cordiae £f Sebaflina botanicorum /peeks. 



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Spanilh Elm, or Prince- wood 







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Periantium. Cylindraceum oblongum ftriatum tri quadri vel quinque crenatum 



perjiftens. 



Corolla. Monopetala infundibuliformis perjiftens, tubus cylindraceus oalice longior 



fauce liimter amph 



limbus major patens & obliq, 



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tacinias oblongas retufas y adfacem fere JhStus 



quinque 



Stamina. Filamenta quinque tuba corolla inj 



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PifHllum 



eret~la 3 anthers oblong 



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liber 



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Germen ovatum intra tubum ftoris fitum y ftilus ere Bus ftaminibus 

 brevior bipartitus y laciniis remotis bifidis - y ftigmata oblonga 





erefta adnata 

 Peiicarpium. Drupa oblong 



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Ucem itwnutatum & tubu 







corolla 

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diftentum repofita y & fhreque marcido perfftenti coromta. , 

 tenuis lignofus quadrilocularis, difjepimentis duobus quando- 

 que omnibus interrupts . 



Oblongo-ov at a foh 



quorum tria pkrumque abcrtimt 



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grows in many parts of Jamaica, and is generally efteemed as one of 



the beft timber Woods in the Ifland ; it riies to 



confiderable height, but feldom 



exceeds twenty or thirty inches in diameter, efpecially in the low lands, where it is 

 mofl common : it is pretty much branched towards the top, and furnifhed with ob- 

 long nervous leaves , the flowers are very white, and grow in great numbers at the 



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